Buy Local Bowling Green

06/12/2026

If you stand still long enough at Spillway BG and let the room get quiet for a second, you can almost hear it. The ghost of a set from before anyone knew the name. Chris Stapleton working through something that would end up on a record years later. Colter Wall finding his voice in a room that did not know yet what it was listening to. That fryer in the back has been going the whole time — the chicken wings that people were talking about back then are the same wings people are talking about now, because the fryer did not change and neither did the standard.

Check tonight's lineup at and get to River Street. 🎶

06/12/2026

The sun is out. The filets are waiting. And the family behind the counter at Rian's Fatted Calf Meat Shoppe already knows exactly which cut is needed for whatever is happening in that backyard this weekend.

Dry-aged prime beef cut to order. Colossal shrimp. Maine lobster tail for the occasion that decided to go all the way. The Famous Bacon Burger blend for the grill that has been waiting for a summer weekend worth firing up. This is a family-owned butcher counter where the person on the other side of the case has opinions about every single thing in it and shares them freely — because the meal that follows deserves that kind of attention.

Visit today before the weekend takes the best cuts first. 🥩

06/12/2026

Here is what makes Buy Local Processing (US, yeah we're talking in the third person) different from every other payment processor that has ever sent a Bowling Green business a cold email. We are local. When something goes wrong on a Saturday afternoon in July when the summer crowd is lined up and the terminal has an opinion about it — we answer the phone. Not a call center. Not a ticket system. The actual people who set up the account and know the business by name.

Transparent pricing. Technology that works. A local partner who understands what it means to run a small business in a mid-size Kentucky city because we are running one too. If the current processor feels like a company that signed the contract and disappeared — email [email protected] or DM us. Local businesses deserve local partners.

06/12/2026

The best find in any pawn shop is the one nobody else knew to look for.

EZ Money Pawn and Jewelry at 1175 Clay Street is the place Bowling Green brings the things it needs to turn into cash — and the place it goes when it wants something it did not know it was looking for. Family owned and operated. Jewelry, tools, electronics, fi****ms, musical gear, sports collectibles — if it has value it is either in the case or it has been through the door. Fast cash when you need it. Unexpected finds when you don't. Six days a week at a shop that has been trusted in this city long enough to stop needing to prove it.

Stop in today. Something in there has your name on it.

06/12/2026

THREE Mel Brooks movies. ONE Saturday. ZERO excuses, Bowling Green.

The Capitol BG is doing the Lord's work on June 13: High Anxiety at 3, Men in Tights at 5, Blazing Saddles at 7. That's six straight hours of the funniest man to ever pick up a camera, on a big screen, on Fountain Square, for less than you spent on your last sad drive-thru run. You've seen these movies on your couch a hundred times. You have NEVER seen Blazing Saddles with a full house of strangers losing it together. That's the whole point. Comedy is a team sport.

Show up at 3 and make a day of it, or roll in at 7 like a coward. Either way, get downtown.

Find out more at capitolbg.org. Tell 'em Buy Local sent you.

06/12/2026

Jalisco Mexican Grill and Cantina doesn't need summer to officially arrive. The margaritas stay cold while the food is hot and delicious and the party never stops.

The burritos were built with you in mind. The cantina atmosphere that Bowling Green has been depending on for exactly this kind of Friday is doing what it does turning a lunch hour into something the afternoon has to live up to. Online ordering ready. Catering available for whatever the weekend calendar is building toward. Two weeks until America 250 week and the summer is accelerating.

Book at today. The weekend starts now. 🌮

06/12/2026

06/11/2026

The last decision of the day is still a decision worth making correctly.

The 30 Bird runs a rotating weekly menu built on one conviction — that eating well and eating clean are the same thing when someone takes the time to mean it. Not diet food dressed up in better lighting. Food that respects the body that is going to be outside all summer and expects it to perform accordingly. June is when those habits start. Thursday night is as good a time as any to begin.

Check this week's menu and end the day on your own terms.

06/11/2026

Wristband Sunday at Southern Lanes is the weekend plan that requires zero convincing once the numbers are explained.

Twenty dollars. Unlimited bowling, shoe rental, unlimited laser tag, unlimited bumper cars. Ten hours — 10am to 10pm — across three locations: Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, Owensboro. The kind of Sunday that ends with everyone tired in exactly the right way and already talking about coming back. America 250 week is two weeks away and the summer is building toward something. Wristband Sunday is where Bowling Green warms up for it.

Tag whoever needs to see this tonight while you still have their attention. 🎳

06/11/2026

The afternoon hits a wall and Boba Lounge is the answer that Bowling Green figured out before most cities did.

Bold flavors built locally by people who care which drink leaves with each customer. The kind of spot that turns a Thursday detour into a ritual — and then into a habit — and then into the thing people tell out-of-towners about when they ask where to go. This is not a chain with a loyalty app. This is Bowling Green's own thing and it has been worth finding from the beginning.

Stop by and let the afternoon turn around. 🧋